Is Perfection Possible?
ASSALAMU`ALAIKUM WARAHMATULLAH
Alhamdulillah. All have been settled down (or settled themselves down). Things have fallen to their rightful places and though for me some are done quite imperfect, I'm pretty much feel relieved and revived. God has never forsook me, I knew it. I knew it all along. Even at times I hardly have time for Him, He always have time for me. He loves me.
Defining perfection. Perfecting definition.
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For me, a minimalist, perfection is no more but a condition where people have what it takes to be themselves, without bothering the queries that concern them. Perfect thing/being is a thing/being that lives up to what our sacred mind expects them to live, I mean, enlivening their own definition. To look at this in a simple and more comprehensive manner, let us take fish, per se. Okay, via definition, fish is a type of organism that breathes using gills, swims, and make living entirely based upon almost everything.
Given that this is the universally accepted definition of fish, then anything that has the physical states of fish lives the definition, is fish. Perfect fish. Anything that possesses fish external attributes but doesn't meet the requirement of a fish (as stated above) are still fish, but not a perfect fish. So, we can say the way we define something really does affect the way we see a perfect stature of it. So, is the case solved? Let us take an instance that's nearer to us. Students.
Student literally, as being defined in 'Oxford's Advance Dictionary' is a someone who is very interested in a particular subject. Another version is, student is a person who studies at a university, school or college; pupil. The best definition is from Collins English Dictionary. There, student is defined as someone who is making a thorough study of a subject. Getting back to square one...
Oh, I forgot to mention: definition is divisible to two types; literal and conceptual. Literal is the direct translation, whereas conceptual regards contextual definition and is linked to relativeness, too. The provided definition is literal. The conceptual definition of students, based on my observation and pure personal understanding is a person who puts a great deal of attention on something, in the light of wanting to master and understand it. Mental and cognitive limitations exist though, so a student, despite his undeterred will and determination cannot really have total control over the result of your efforts. Student-conceptually-is virtual loser. He does mistakes.
Wrapping up the whole thing with style~
Let us talk about a perfect student the same way we look a fish as a perfect fish. Firstly, remember; compare it to the conceptual definition. So, by using MY conceptual perception of student, being perfect is possible. As long as you execute all the needs of a student, then you are a perfect student. Being in class without learning nor have the desire to still putting you as a student. But not a perfect one.
The other thing is, this whole entry is fallible, frankly speaking. How can I definitively define something, as the definition of perfection itself needs further revision? Right? As everything is dependent upon personal thought and preference, there's no doubt that the way I see perfection is different from yours. So there is no "I 'm right, and you're fukken wrong!" thing. Everything's just about the same. All that matters (and that differs) is experience. Experience enriches perception and only perception alone that influences our way of not just seeing things literally but to define them infinitely conceptual. We can't [seem] to satisfy everyone.
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